Table of Contents

The Setting Of U.S. Policy * The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention * U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East * Learning Lebanon: A Primer Formative Years In The Evolution Of U.S. Policy: 19441952 * Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity * The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty * Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy The Eisenhower Administration And The Shamun Regime: A Policy Of Information And Consent * Pressure Points and Priorities * Lebanon: The Bridgehead in the Orient * Realities of Power in the Rear Area * Our Man in Beirut Intervening Before Intervention * Civil War, May 1958 * Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention * 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target * By Mutual Consent: JulyOctober 1958

About the Author

Irene L. Gendzier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, a research associate of the African Studies Center, and reseach affiliate in the Middle East Center at Harvard University. She has published widely and is currently on the editorial boards of New Political Science and Radical Philosphy Review: A Journal of Progressive Thought.